•In 1811, the first of the powerful New Madrid earthquakes struck the central Mississippi Valley with an estimated magnitude of 7.7.

•In 1960, 134 people were killed when a United Air Lines DC-8 and a TWA Super Constellation collided over New York City.

•In 1976, the government halted its swine flu vaccination program following reports of paralysis apparently linked to the vaccine.

•In 1991, the U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism by a vote of 111-25.

Ten years ago: A jury in Baltimore acquitted former altar boy Dontee Stokes of attempted murder in the shooting of a Roman Catholic priest he’d claimed molested him a decade earlier.

Five years ago: Singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg died in Deer Isle, Maine, at age 56.

One year ago: Former Penn State graduate assistant Mike McQueary testified that he believed he saw ex-assistant coach Jerry Sandusky molesting a boy and that he fully conveyed what he had seen to two Penn State administrators; a judge sent the cases of Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, accused of lying to a grand jury, to trial. An investigative report showed that thousands of children suffered sexual abuse in Dutch Roman Catholic institutions over the past 65 years, and that church officials failed to adequately address the abuse or help the victims. In San Francisco, eight years of being investigated for steroid allegations ended for home run king Barry Bonds with a 30-day sentence to be served at home.